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PREPARE FOR PEACE 


A Program: 


TO defend our fundamental 
American rights of 


FREE SPEECH 
FREE PRESS 


PEACEFUL 
ASSEMBLY 


TO work without ceasing for 


EARLY AND 
LASTING PEACE 


A UNITED STATES 
OF THE WORLD 


TO oppose legislation for 


COMPULSORY 
MILITARY SERVICE 


“To Defend American Ideals of Liberty 


and Democracy and to Work for 
an Early and Lasting Peace 


Our country is at war. Events are moving rapidly. Each day brings new threats 
against American liberties, new dangers to our democracy. In the heat of war, meas- 
ures are being proposed which would curtail or abrogate the most fundamental of our 
constitutional rights. 


LET US REMAIN A FREE PEOPLE 


The Espionage Bill was supposedly aimed against alien spies, but contains clauses 
which would kill free speech and muzzle the press. Meetings to protest against con- 
scription have been and are still being suppressed. Speakers have been jailed for 
criticising the war, and in some cases the police have stopped the sale of peace literature. 
A campaign of threats and “frightfulness” is conducted in the press against those who 
refuse to bind their consciences. 


SHALL WE ADOPT CONSCRIPTIONP 


If this were a people’s war there would be no need to talk conscription. If 
free Americans are failing to rally to the cause, may the fault lie not in their loyalty 
but in the cause itselfP Is it American, is it democratic, to force the plain people to 
fight the war on which they had no opportunity for consent or opposition? 


_ Why should America compel her men to fight in Europe when Australia refused 
to coerce their own British subjects to fight on European soil? Shall the United 
States fight this war with conscripts when the British colonies send only volunteers? 


Let us know and control our own foreign policy. Each of the Entente Allies 
has bound itself to make no peace until the war aims of all shall be satisfied. 


The Sherman Resolution, just introduced in the Senate, would “bind the United 
States not to make a separate peace with the German Government—nor with any of 
the Allies of the German Government.” It demands that no peace be concluded save 
by the “joint action of the United States and the governments with which it wages war 


Emergency Peace Federation 


Room 901, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York 


Telephone Chelsea 5458 


OBJECT 


To defend American ideals of liberty and democracy in 
war time, and to work for an early and enduring peace. 


IMMEDIATE PROGRAM 


1. 


. To oppose the 


To defend our constitutional rights 
of free speech, free press, peace- 
ful assemblage, and the right to 
petition the government. 


enactment of 
measures for compulsory military 
service, 


- To assert the right of the people 


to know and discuss the aims, 
scope, and method, of our partici- 
pation in the war, and their right 
at any time to advocate terms of 
peace. 


+ TO oppose the adoption of any 


treaty, alliance or policy which 
would prevent the United States 
from making an independent de- 
cision as to when and on what 
terms it shall make peace. 


. TO urge our government to seize 


every opportunity for bringing 
about peace negotiations and estab- 
lishing international organization 
as a guarantee against future wars. 


Executive Committee 
EMILY GREENE BALCH 


Chancellor DAVID STARR JORDAN 


PHILIP SARGENT FLORENCE 
LOUIS P. LOCHNER 
REV. JUDAH L. MAGNES 
BENJAMIN C. MARSH 
JOSEPH CANNON 
PROF. H. W. L. DANA 
ELSIE BORG GOLDSMITH 
ROBERT W. HALE 
PROF. HARRY OVERSTREET 
TRACY D. MYGATT 
DR. HENRY NEUMANN 
FANNIE M. WITHERSPOON 


Secretary 
LELLA FAYE SECOR 


Treasurer 
DR. FREDERICK LYNCH 


Field Secretary 
REBECCA SHELLY 
Legislative Secretary 

ELIZABETH FREEMAN 


Legislative Headquarters 
ROOM 648, MUNSEY BLDG. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 


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April 20, 1917. 


Dear Friend? 
You have stood by us - Wear ae 


You supported us nobly in the effort 
to prevent war - 


Now the war is on, but ovr work is by 
no means ended. 


The attendant evils of war must be fought. 
In the heat of the war spirit we must not 
permit any abrogation of our dearly won 
constitutional liberties. We must prepare 
the way for peace, 


The Federation is working night and day - 
we want you to know some of the things it 
is accomplishing. 


Won't you read the enclosed pamphlet - you 
will see at once the great importance and far 
reaching character of the work we are trying 
to do. 


All our friends are standing by us in our 
efforts to serve the best and abiding interests 
of our country. Will YOU help us? 


Send what you can without delay - no time 
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against Germany, and any other governments which may be joined with Germany as 
an ally, either now or hereafter.” 


This would make it absolutely mandatory that America continue the war even 
though Germany abandon her submarine warfare. Must American boys continue to 
die on European battlefields in order to secure for Italy Albania, Dalmatia and the 
Greek Islands, or to win for Great Britain Messopotamia, or to acquire new Asiatic 
possessions for JapanP 


Secret diplomacy prevailing in every nation now at war is conceded to be one of 
the greatest contributing causes of the European struggle. The Americans have the 
right and the duty to demand complete publicity on all our foreign dealings. 


WHAT THE EMERGENCY PEACE FEDERATION DOES 


The Emergency Peace Federation maintains a strong legislative committee in 
Washington which examines and reports especially dangerous war bills. It demanded 
and secured public hearings on the Espionage Bill, which exposed its pernicious 
features. At this writing it is watching sharply to prevent any clauses being slipped 
in which would endanger free speech. The Emergency Peace Federation also induced 
the Committee on Military Affairs to hear opponents of conscription in executive 
session. By letters, telegrams and newspaper publicity it is organizing the vast though 
inarticulate opposition to conscription. 


The Emergency Peace Federation is sending out hundreds of letters warning 
against the dangers of binding ourselves to continue the war until the Allies are 
ready to stop. 


An immense mailing list is also being built up. The Federation is trying to 
get in touch with all persons and organizations who are able to see, write or telegraph 
to Congressmen, write to the papers, or speak at union, lodge and church meetings. 


The ultimate purpose of the Emergency Peace Federation is expressed in the 
title, PREPARE FOR PEACE. Our workers are planning to the end that we may 
not be found unprepared when the “psychological” moment comes for a great nation- 
wide demand for peace negotiations. 


STAND WITH US! 


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YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!-~ 


To carry on this work costs courage, intelligence and money. 


Make the Emergency Peace Federation your weapon of defense, your 
voice of protest. It has the organization, the courage and the facilities to 
defend your liberties, to fight for an independent American foreign policy, 
and make itself heard in the councils of the nation in its advocacy of an 
early and lasting peace. 


WE MUST ACT—AND ACT AT ONCE 


Funds are urgently needed, and we must rely on our friends to make 
sacrifices, if need be, to enable us to carry on the work with all the 
intensity demanded by the present crisis. 


There are two things you should do—and do at once: 


1. Sign the Liberty Defense Pledge—make your contribution as large as 
your means will allow. 


2. Send the names of friends who will help to further the object of the 
Federation. 


LIBERTY DEFENSE PLEDGE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY 


I will help to further the object of I suggest the following names of my 
the Emergency Peace Federation by friends interested in peace and the 
contributing the following amount to defense of American ideals. 
assist in the work of the Emergency 
Peace Federation. 


Enclosed please find my contribu- 


LOT: Prices ee . I pledge myself to 


send you $ weekly /monthly. 


EMERGENCY PEACE FEDERATION 
70 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY 


